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Guest rj55brc
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My question is what the recommended max size for a profile on a computer

would be. Does is have the same effect as a .pst file? i know that .pst

files will get corrupted after they reach a certain limit. Your help is

greatly appreciated.

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Guest Shenan Stanley
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Re: Profile Size

 

rj55brc wrote:

> My question is what the recommended max size for a profile on a

> computer would be.

 

No recommended size for regular local profiles. Your 'profile' is made up

of so many different files/folders. It could be a few GB up into the 100's

of GBs... Most of it is not touched unless you tell it to be. Desktop is

just a folder full of files. My Documents is the same thing - as well as

all the subfolders of My Documents.

> Does is have the same effect as a .pst file? i

> know that .pst files will get corrupted after they reach a certain

> limit.

 

That is *not* correct - at least not anymore - and it wasn't really

corruption as much as it just had file-size limitations and you had to

archive your mail. I mean - I would not recommend anyone to allow their PST

file to grow super-large (undoubtedly - they could have archived LONG before

it got to any huge size...) - but the size limit no longer exists at the

same level (2GB or so) as it did with Office XP.

 

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